Horse or cattle blanket.



.No. 784,921. PATENTED MAR. 14, 1905. T. & G. GLEMETSON. HORSE OR CATTLEBLANKET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HORSE OR CATTLE BLANKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 784,921, dated March14, 1905.

Application filed November 14, 1903. Serial No- 181,260.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, TOBIAS CLEME'rsoN and GABRIEL CLEMnTsoN, citizensof the United States, residing at the city of Duluth, in the county ofSt. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Horseor Cattle Blanket, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in horse and cattle blankets; andthe objects of our improvements are to provide a blanket which will keepa horse or cow clean; will remain on a horse or cow no matter what theaction of animal, whether standing, lying down, or rolling over; whichwill have no particular strain at any point, but will adjust itselfaccording to the motions or actions of the animal, and which willrequire no surcingle around the animals body to keep it in place. eattain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of the entire blanket. Fig. 2is a side view showing how it would appear if in position on the animal,and Fig. 3 is a rear view showing how it would appear if in position onanimal.

The blanketbody A can be made of any material commonly used for blanketsand is cut as shown in Fig. 1.

StrapsB B are sewed upon the outer side of the blanket and extenddiagonally from the front edge of the blanket toward the rear edge ofthe same, intersecting on the medial line of the blanket, as clearlyshown in Fig. 1. The rear ends of these straps carry rings (J and arearranged at such points of the blanket that when the blanket is inposition these rings will be near but in advance of the hindquarters andnear the bottom edge of the blanket. The front end of one of the strapscarries a ring D, while the front end of the other strap carries a hookE, adapted to engage said ring, and thereby fasten the blanket acrossthe breast of the animal. To the rear edge of the blanket we securestraps F, carrying hooks G at their ends. These straps are adapted topass around the rear legs of the animal and have the hooks Gr engaged inthe rings C, thereby holding the bottom edges of the blanket in close tothe body of the animal, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The rear edge of the blanket is cut away from its medial line toward theside edges, as shown at H, to represent a notch, which will permit theblanket to clear the animals tail, while at the same time the rearcorners of the blanket may be wrapped around the legs of the animal, soas to keep them clean under all conditions.

The straps F are of suflicientlength to allow them to be brought aroundrear legs of. animal and passed under and brought out at the side. Theend of strap that is brought out in this manner has a snap attached toit, which is snapped into the ring on end of strap fastened to side ofblanket. The strap when so fastened is shown in Fig 2. Que of thesestraps is on each side, and both are fastened in the same manner. Thestraps will be from three to three and one-half feet in length and willhave a reversible buckle on them, so they can be lengthened orshortened, according to the size of the animal.

The rear end of blanket is cut in such a manner as to allow it to bebrought around the rear legs of the animal, thus keeping them clean.This is done by taking the material of which the blanket is to be madeand cutting a piece seventy inches in width by eighty inches in length,and folding same gives an oblong double piece thirty-live inches inwidth by eighty inches in length. The place where material is doubled isconsidered the top and the short measurements the ends.

hleasuring from rear end of blanket along the top twelve inches a pointis made. Then measuring down on rear end one-half the depth of blanketanother point is made. A diagonal line is then made connecting these twopoints andthe material is cut along this line, thus giving the desiredlaps at the bottom rear end of blanket. This is plainly seen in Fig.

l. The laps made by this out are brought around the rear legs of animaland when the animal urinates or stools the legs are kept clean.

The blanket, as shown in Fig. l, is placed on back of animal andfastened in front by ring and snap shown on front end of same. Thestraps shown on rear end of Fig. 1 are then passed around the rear legsof animal, the one on the right side being passed around the right legand the one on the left side being passed around the left leg. The strapis brought out on side and fastened, as shown in Fig. 2, this being doneon both sides. The blanket is then in position and cannot be twisted orturned on body of the animal, because it is held in place by the straps.The blanket is thus held firmly in position without particular strain atany point.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. .An animal-blanket having intersecting diagonal straps secured uponits outer side, said straps extending from the front edge or end of theblanket to points near the rear and side edges of the blanket and beingprovided with fastening means at their front ends, and connectionsbetween the rear ends of the straps and the rear of the blanket.

2. An animal-blanket having intersecting diagonal straps secured on itsouter side, said straps extending from the front edge of the blanket topoints near the rear and side edges of the blanket and provided withconnecting means at their front ends, rings carried by the rear ends ofthe said straps,and straps secured to the rear end of the blanket andcarrying hooks adapted to engage the rings at the rear ends of theintersecting straps.

TOBIAS CLEMETSON. GABRIEL CLEMETSON.

itnesses:

LUCIEN A. BARNES, JAMES P. VEIR.

